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Flattering, yes, but crazy.
SIDE NOTE: Hi!! Updated sooner than ya thought I would, huh? Usually I take about MONTHS to update... hmm... I wonder why... oh well! Anyhow, I'm updating, and hat's what's important! Please read and enjoy!
"Good morning sunshine!!" a small pause. "I said, GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE!! GET YOUR LAZY ASS OUT OF BED, LORD HIEI!!"
Hiei sat up abruptly as the sheets were yanked out from under him, causing him to fall off the bed when he sat up. He cursed loudly and rubbed the sore spot on his backside where he landed, glaring up at she who dared disturb his sleep. "What the hell is your problem, woman?"
"My PROBLEM is, I've gotta drag your lazy ass out of bed and through town for a tour," Hebidoshi said this halfway as though it were a joke, and halfway as though it annoyed her beyond all possible extent. "So get up!!" She then bowed. "There is breakfast in my kitchen if you're hungry, Lord Hiei. Glenora has prepared it for you."
Hiei stood up. "Don't bow to me! And what's all this 'Lord Hiei' crap?"
Hebidoshi shrugged and gave him a mischievous smile. "It bugs you, does it not?" Hiei remained silent, making the kitten's fanged grin grow wider. "Ah, then it has served its purpose, my Lord Hiei!" Another playful bow and she was gone.
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Hiei yawned as he picked at breakfast, remembering what had happened last night. He'd chased the kitten girl all the way to the front door of her estate, where she'd opened the door and let him, with his over- speedy legs, run straight in and skid to a stop in the kitchen, where a servant (Glenora) whacked him with a spatula. He'd been too humiliated afterwards to protest to the guest room the girl had picked out for him. It was quite comfy and spacious, so he didn't have a problem with it, anyway. It just wasn't his nature to be totally happy with anything. This Hebidoshi girl just had a way of taking the words right out of him.
"Lord Hiei!" Ah, speak of the devil. "If you're finished with breakfast, we can begin the tour of our realm. Are you finished eating?"
"I suppose so," Hiei shoved his untouched plate aside and stood. Hebidoshi stared at the full plate for a moment before shrugging and grabbing Hiei's arm.
"Come on! We've got lots of stuff to see! And I've got so many of my favorite places to show you!"
"YOUR favorite places?" Hiei raised an eyebrow at her statement.
Hebidoshi laughed. "Well, you don't have any favorite places, do you?" Her eyes narrowed mischievously as Hiei remained silent. "Didn't think so. But just in case, we'll stop by the place you got arrested! Sound fun, Lord Hiei?"
"Don't call me that."
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"First," said the kitten, dragging Hiei towards a tall, overly decorated building. "We're going to lunch!"
"Lunch?!" Hiei looked at her in disbelief. "But I just ate breakfast!"
"Wrong!" the feline demon's long and skinny index finger flew up in front of Hiei's face. "You did not eat anything! All I saw in front of you was a full plate! So therefore, you are going to eat NOW! Come on!" She grabbed his wrist again and pulled him inside, Hiei protesting all the way inside.
"You can't make me eat if I don't want to!" he insisted childishly as the bronze- haired kitten shoved him into a chair. She rolled her eyes and sat across from him, looking rather smug.
"Actually, in here, I can. You see, Lord Hiei, in this particular restaurant, one must order something if they do not want to suffer. If they order nothing, the waiters bring a dish large enough for one of our dragons to eat just for them. If they don't eat it, the service ties the customer to their chair, and force- feeds them for the whole restaurant to see. So, if you don't want to suffer a large meal or extreme humiliation, you will order something." And with that, the girl smugly sat back in her chair, her eyes reflection a sort of giggle.
"I don't believe you," Hiei sat back in his own chair, looking quite collected. It was true, he didn't believe it. Even restaurants in Makai never did something like that, and there was no crueler place than Makai.
"Oh, you'd better. Here comes our waiter."
The waiter walked up in a crimson cloak, carrying a notepad and piercing the two with his luminous yellow eyes. Scaly ears wiggled out from underneath his curly hair so they could hear the orders. His eyes lit up in recognition as he saw Hebidoshi. "Ah, I see you're back, madame. Will you be having the vegetarian special as usual?"
"You know me well, Fredo," the waiter was greeted with a fanged kitten's grin.
"You've only been coming here just about every night," his eyes shifted to Hiei. "Ah! Another guest of yours, madame? I do hope he's not as stubborn as the last one."
At that moment, the kitten girl giggled. "Oh, I don't know, Fredo. He just might be."
The waiter's eyes narrowed. "I see... well, sir, what will you be having?"
"Nothing," Hiei crossed his arms, stubborn as ever. The waiter narrowed his eyes further, but they brightened again as a screaming reached the table. His scaly ears wiggled excitedly. Hebidoshi leaned forward in her seat.
"Ooh, look! Someone didn't eat their meal!" she said, as though this were the highlight of her life. Hiei turned around. And he gulped. A young child, obviously a picky and spoiled little brat was surrounded by about five waiters who were mercilessly forcing spoonfuls of who knows what down her throat. The child was screaming and squealing nonstop, but nobody seemed to mind. Hiei turned around, eyes wide, and he sunk down into his seat. Hebidoshi looked back at him with sly eyes.
"Do you think it's cruel to do that to a child, Hiei? I assure you, it's not. Children are treated much more kindly than adults. Those waiters may seem like they're hurting her, but they're simply teaching her not to be so spoiled. She'll be a little scared, but in no way harmed. But adults..." the kitten's eyes widened, giving the girl a slightly maniacal look. "Now, they get the brunt of the punishment... while children are given only half of what is on that plate, adults are given twice that much. They have to eat it ALL. And it's ruthless... completely ruthless."
Hiei still sat stiff. "I'll have what she's having."
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"This is our last stop!" Hebidoshi said gleefully. Hiei groaned but went along with it. After the restaurant he had been too traumatized not to go along with everything. She had taken him everywhere from the clothes shop to the zoo. He was just afraid of what was next. "Welcome to the ranch!"
Hiei stopped in his tracks for a moment as a large set of wooden gates opened before him. Once looking inside, he felt he had gone to heaven. Dragons were everywhere; flying around directed airways or galloping along fenced tracks. Some where still inside stalls, baying, or growling. Some let out tyrannical roars as the gates opened. Many of them were set with reins and saddles, both large enough to fit the huge head and body of a dragon. And the colors of these creatures! Yellow, blue, green, brown, red, black; all with enormous golden or fiery red eyes.
"Hello in there!" Hebidoshi rapped her knuckles against Hiei's temple. He blinked out of his trance.
"A dragon ranch?"
"Of course! This is a freaking dragon realm! What'd you expect us to ride? Horses?"
"And... you can just come here and ride them whenever you want, whichever one you want?"
"DUH! Come on, I'll show you my dragon!" Hebidoshi took Hiei by the wrist again and dragged him off to fenced- off field that seemed about two- hundred acres wide. The size would make sense, seeing how many dragons there were in this pen and noting how large they all were. Hebidoshi bade Hiei stay by the front gate as she went inside. Hiei watched quietly, fascinated.
Hebidoshi cleared her throat. "Dremia! Here, girl!" Hiei rolled his eyes. Moments later, a brown dragon with red eyes and a white diamond pattern going down its back flew across the pen at her master's call. The end of her tail had a rattle, like a rattle snake. In fact, the whole dragon looked like a rattle snake. She even had a forked, snake- like tongue that flicked in and out of her mouth. Hebidoshi gave the serpent- like dragon a pat on her nose and turned to Hiei. "Well? What do you think of her?"
"She's a beautiful creature," Hiei admitted. He reached out a hand to pet the dragon. "May I?"
"That's up to her," the kitten girl answered, petting the dragon's neck this time. As if replying, Dremia nuzzled Hiei's palm. Hiei was surprised at the creature's warm flesh. The bronze- haired kitten smiled. "It seems she's taken a liking to you. That's interesting. She usually doesn't warm up to strangers."
"I guess I'm just likable," Hiei replied, scratching under the dragon's chin. "So, you say she's yours, but she lives at the ranch. How does that work?"
"People here can buy a dragon and leave it at the ranch if they don't have enough space for it. Though I do have a lot of space, I don't have enough for a dragon. My house is large, but my property is not. So I just bought her and kept her here."
"Buying a dragon... hmm... I'd like to buy one," Hiei said absently.
The feline girl's golden eyes flickered in Hiei's direction. "If you wish, I will buy you one. But the dragon has to choose you... no one ever chooses a dragon."
Hiei looked at her in surprise. "No... I couldn't possibly ask you to—"
"You're not asking me to do anything, Hiei. I'm offering," she bowed. "You can call it an apology for your arrest, Lord Hiei."
"Don't bow to me. And you already apologized. I'm not going to ask you to buy me anything. So let's just go."
The girl sighed. "As you wish, my lord." She gave her dragon a kiss on the nose before turning away. "Follow me to the exit, please."
The walk was spent in silence. Hebidoshi led him through a part of the ranch that was much shadier and gloomier than the rest of it. All around there were dragons lashing out and struggling. Several demons in uniforms were trying to control them. And then... he saw it.
"Hold him down! And keep that muzzle on! If he gets loose, we're dead!"
"He's struggling too much! We need more wards!"
Hiei felt a tapping on his shoulder. "Hiei? The exit is this way." Hebidoshi waved her hand in front of his face. "Hello! Hiei!"
"That dragon... who is that?"
"Huh?" the girl looked over at the fierce black dragon with yellow eyes. Its great leathery wings flapped with such force that it created waves of dust on the ground. Its huge pointed snout was encased in a muzzle, and the rest of its great body in chains. Violet ridges poked out from underneath the masses of metal, and its long black tail thrashed around. "Oh, that's Kokuryu. We named him after the black dragon because of his forceful and uncontrollable nature." She paused. "Hiei, if you're thinking of trying to control that thing—"
"I am," Hiei smiled deviously. "And I will. I mastered the black dragon, and I came here when no one else before me has. I will tame this dragon."
"You're right. You will." Hiei looked over at the feline demon as she made this comment. She looked very calm. "I have total faith in that, my lord. If you wish to tame the mighty Kokuryu, then do so."
"Alright then... I will," Hiei stepped right in front of the dragon, facing its burning glare. Its breath washed over him as he stood. "Let the dragon go."
"What?! Are you aiming to get killed?!" one of the men restraining the dragon cried out.
"Unleash him. Let me feel his wrath," Hiei grinned a fanged grin. "I assure you I will come out of it alive."
Before anyone else could protest, the dragon broke loose of its chains, and the muzzle slipped off. It didn't like to be downsized, and now this confident being, Hiei, would pay for doing just that.
SIDE NOTE: Hi, guys! I finished this chapter, and WHOO BOY was it a long'n! I hope you enjoyed it. I really enjoyed writing this. Bet YOU all know what's going to happen. Well, please review!
SIDE NOTE: Hi!! Updated sooner than ya thought I would, huh? Usually I take about MONTHS to update... hmm... I wonder why... oh well! Anyhow, I'm updating, and hat's what's important! Please read and enjoy!
"Good morning sunshine!!" a small pause. "I said, GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE!! GET YOUR LAZY ASS OUT OF BED, LORD HIEI!!"
Hiei sat up abruptly as the sheets were yanked out from under him, causing him to fall off the bed when he sat up. He cursed loudly and rubbed the sore spot on his backside where he landed, glaring up at she who dared disturb his sleep. "What the hell is your problem, woman?"
"My PROBLEM is, I've gotta drag your lazy ass out of bed and through town for a tour," Hebidoshi said this halfway as though it were a joke, and halfway as though it annoyed her beyond all possible extent. "So get up!!" She then bowed. "There is breakfast in my kitchen if you're hungry, Lord Hiei. Glenora has prepared it for you."
Hiei stood up. "Don't bow to me! And what's all this 'Lord Hiei' crap?"
Hebidoshi shrugged and gave him a mischievous smile. "It bugs you, does it not?" Hiei remained silent, making the kitten's fanged grin grow wider. "Ah, then it has served its purpose, my Lord Hiei!" Another playful bow and she was gone.
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Hiei yawned as he picked at breakfast, remembering what had happened last night. He'd chased the kitten girl all the way to the front door of her estate, where she'd opened the door and let him, with his over- speedy legs, run straight in and skid to a stop in the kitchen, where a servant (Glenora) whacked him with a spatula. He'd been too humiliated afterwards to protest to the guest room the girl had picked out for him. It was quite comfy and spacious, so he didn't have a problem with it, anyway. It just wasn't his nature to be totally happy with anything. This Hebidoshi girl just had a way of taking the words right out of him.
"Lord Hiei!" Ah, speak of the devil. "If you're finished with breakfast, we can begin the tour of our realm. Are you finished eating?"
"I suppose so," Hiei shoved his untouched plate aside and stood. Hebidoshi stared at the full plate for a moment before shrugging and grabbing Hiei's arm.
"Come on! We've got lots of stuff to see! And I've got so many of my favorite places to show you!"
"YOUR favorite places?" Hiei raised an eyebrow at her statement.
Hebidoshi laughed. "Well, you don't have any favorite places, do you?" Her eyes narrowed mischievously as Hiei remained silent. "Didn't think so. But just in case, we'll stop by the place you got arrested! Sound fun, Lord Hiei?"
"Don't call me that."
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"First," said the kitten, dragging Hiei towards a tall, overly decorated building. "We're going to lunch!"
"Lunch?!" Hiei looked at her in disbelief. "But I just ate breakfast!"
"Wrong!" the feline demon's long and skinny index finger flew up in front of Hiei's face. "You did not eat anything! All I saw in front of you was a full plate! So therefore, you are going to eat NOW! Come on!" She grabbed his wrist again and pulled him inside, Hiei protesting all the way inside.
"You can't make me eat if I don't want to!" he insisted childishly as the bronze- haired kitten shoved him into a chair. She rolled her eyes and sat across from him, looking rather smug.
"Actually, in here, I can. You see, Lord Hiei, in this particular restaurant, one must order something if they do not want to suffer. If they order nothing, the waiters bring a dish large enough for one of our dragons to eat just for them. If they don't eat it, the service ties the customer to their chair, and force- feeds them for the whole restaurant to see. So, if you don't want to suffer a large meal or extreme humiliation, you will order something." And with that, the girl smugly sat back in her chair, her eyes reflection a sort of giggle.
"I don't believe you," Hiei sat back in his own chair, looking quite collected. It was true, he didn't believe it. Even restaurants in Makai never did something like that, and there was no crueler place than Makai.
"Oh, you'd better. Here comes our waiter."
The waiter walked up in a crimson cloak, carrying a notepad and piercing the two with his luminous yellow eyes. Scaly ears wiggled out from underneath his curly hair so they could hear the orders. His eyes lit up in recognition as he saw Hebidoshi. "Ah, I see you're back, madame. Will you be having the vegetarian special as usual?"
"You know me well, Fredo," the waiter was greeted with a fanged kitten's grin.
"You've only been coming here just about every night," his eyes shifted to Hiei. "Ah! Another guest of yours, madame? I do hope he's not as stubborn as the last one."
At that moment, the kitten girl giggled. "Oh, I don't know, Fredo. He just might be."
The waiter's eyes narrowed. "I see... well, sir, what will you be having?"
"Nothing," Hiei crossed his arms, stubborn as ever. The waiter narrowed his eyes further, but they brightened again as a screaming reached the table. His scaly ears wiggled excitedly. Hebidoshi leaned forward in her seat.
"Ooh, look! Someone didn't eat their meal!" she said, as though this were the highlight of her life. Hiei turned around. And he gulped. A young child, obviously a picky and spoiled little brat was surrounded by about five waiters who were mercilessly forcing spoonfuls of who knows what down her throat. The child was screaming and squealing nonstop, but nobody seemed to mind. Hiei turned around, eyes wide, and he sunk down into his seat. Hebidoshi looked back at him with sly eyes.
"Do you think it's cruel to do that to a child, Hiei? I assure you, it's not. Children are treated much more kindly than adults. Those waiters may seem like they're hurting her, but they're simply teaching her not to be so spoiled. She'll be a little scared, but in no way harmed. But adults..." the kitten's eyes widened, giving the girl a slightly maniacal look. "Now, they get the brunt of the punishment... while children are given only half of what is on that plate, adults are given twice that much. They have to eat it ALL. And it's ruthless... completely ruthless."
Hiei still sat stiff. "I'll have what she's having."
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"This is our last stop!" Hebidoshi said gleefully. Hiei groaned but went along with it. After the restaurant he had been too traumatized not to go along with everything. She had taken him everywhere from the clothes shop to the zoo. He was just afraid of what was next. "Welcome to the ranch!"
Hiei stopped in his tracks for a moment as a large set of wooden gates opened before him. Once looking inside, he felt he had gone to heaven. Dragons were everywhere; flying around directed airways or galloping along fenced tracks. Some where still inside stalls, baying, or growling. Some let out tyrannical roars as the gates opened. Many of them were set with reins and saddles, both large enough to fit the huge head and body of a dragon. And the colors of these creatures! Yellow, blue, green, brown, red, black; all with enormous golden or fiery red eyes.
"Hello in there!" Hebidoshi rapped her knuckles against Hiei's temple. He blinked out of his trance.
"A dragon ranch?"
"Of course! This is a freaking dragon realm! What'd you expect us to ride? Horses?"
"And... you can just come here and ride them whenever you want, whichever one you want?"
"DUH! Come on, I'll show you my dragon!" Hebidoshi took Hiei by the wrist again and dragged him off to fenced- off field that seemed about two- hundred acres wide. The size would make sense, seeing how many dragons there were in this pen and noting how large they all were. Hebidoshi bade Hiei stay by the front gate as she went inside. Hiei watched quietly, fascinated.
Hebidoshi cleared her throat. "Dremia! Here, girl!" Hiei rolled his eyes. Moments later, a brown dragon with red eyes and a white diamond pattern going down its back flew across the pen at her master's call. The end of her tail had a rattle, like a rattle snake. In fact, the whole dragon looked like a rattle snake. She even had a forked, snake- like tongue that flicked in and out of her mouth. Hebidoshi gave the serpent- like dragon a pat on her nose and turned to Hiei. "Well? What do you think of her?"
"She's a beautiful creature," Hiei admitted. He reached out a hand to pet the dragon. "May I?"
"That's up to her," the kitten girl answered, petting the dragon's neck this time. As if replying, Dremia nuzzled Hiei's palm. Hiei was surprised at the creature's warm flesh. The bronze- haired kitten smiled. "It seems she's taken a liking to you. That's interesting. She usually doesn't warm up to strangers."
"I guess I'm just likable," Hiei replied, scratching under the dragon's chin. "So, you say she's yours, but she lives at the ranch. How does that work?"
"People here can buy a dragon and leave it at the ranch if they don't have enough space for it. Though I do have a lot of space, I don't have enough for a dragon. My house is large, but my property is not. So I just bought her and kept her here."
"Buying a dragon... hmm... I'd like to buy one," Hiei said absently.
The feline girl's golden eyes flickered in Hiei's direction. "If you wish, I will buy you one. But the dragon has to choose you... no one ever chooses a dragon."
Hiei looked at her in surprise. "No... I couldn't possibly ask you to—"
"You're not asking me to do anything, Hiei. I'm offering," she bowed. "You can call it an apology for your arrest, Lord Hiei."
"Don't bow to me. And you already apologized. I'm not going to ask you to buy me anything. So let's just go."
The girl sighed. "As you wish, my lord." She gave her dragon a kiss on the nose before turning away. "Follow me to the exit, please."
The walk was spent in silence. Hebidoshi led him through a part of the ranch that was much shadier and gloomier than the rest of it. All around there were dragons lashing out and struggling. Several demons in uniforms were trying to control them. And then... he saw it.
"Hold him down! And keep that muzzle on! If he gets loose, we're dead!"
"He's struggling too much! We need more wards!"
Hiei felt a tapping on his shoulder. "Hiei? The exit is this way." Hebidoshi waved her hand in front of his face. "Hello! Hiei!"
"That dragon... who is that?"
"Huh?" the girl looked over at the fierce black dragon with yellow eyes. Its great leathery wings flapped with such force that it created waves of dust on the ground. Its huge pointed snout was encased in a muzzle, and the rest of its great body in chains. Violet ridges poked out from underneath the masses of metal, and its long black tail thrashed around. "Oh, that's Kokuryu. We named him after the black dragon because of his forceful and uncontrollable nature." She paused. "Hiei, if you're thinking of trying to control that thing—"
"I am," Hiei smiled deviously. "And I will. I mastered the black dragon, and I came here when no one else before me has. I will tame this dragon."
"You're right. You will." Hiei looked over at the feline demon as she made this comment. She looked very calm. "I have total faith in that, my lord. If you wish to tame the mighty Kokuryu, then do so."
"Alright then... I will," Hiei stepped right in front of the dragon, facing its burning glare. Its breath washed over him as he stood. "Let the dragon go."
"What?! Are you aiming to get killed?!" one of the men restraining the dragon cried out.
"Unleash him. Let me feel his wrath," Hiei grinned a fanged grin. "I assure you I will come out of it alive."
Before anyone else could protest, the dragon broke loose of its chains, and the muzzle slipped off. It didn't like to be downsized, and now this confident being, Hiei, would pay for doing just that.
SIDE NOTE: Hi, guys! I finished this chapter, and WHOO BOY was it a long'n! I hope you enjoyed it. I really enjoyed writing this. Bet YOU all know what's going to happen. Well, please review!